In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we’re post­ing a daily love poem & a Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print. Just because we love love.

‘A Drink­ing Song’ by W.B. Yeats

Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That’s all we know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth

I look at you, and I sigh.

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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we’re post­ing a daily love poem & a Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print. Just because we love love.

‘First Love’ by John Clare

I né’er was struck before that hour,

With love so sud­den and so sweet,

Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower

And stole my heart away complete.

My face turned pale as deadly pale,

My legs refused to walk away,

And when she looked, what could I ail?

My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face

And took my eye­sight quite away,

The trees and bushes round the place

Seemed mid­night at noonday.

I could not see a single thing,

Words from my eyes did start -

They spoke as chords do from the string,

And blood burnt round my heart.

Are flowers the winter’s choice?

Is love’s bed always snow?

She seemed to hear my silent voice,

Not love’s appeals to know.

I never saw so sweet a face

As that I stood before.

My heart has left its dwelling-place

And can return no more.

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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we’re post­ing a daily love poem & a Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print. Just because we love love.

‘Did Not’ by Thomas Moore

‘Twas a new feel­ing — some­thing more

Than we had dared to own before,

Which then we hid not;

We saw it in each other’s eye,

And wished, in very half-breathed sigh,

To speak, but did not.

She felt my lips’ impas­sioned touch -

‘Twas the first time I dared so much,

And yet she chid not;

But whispered o’er my burn­ing brow,

‘Oh, do you doubt I love you now?’

Sweet soul! I did not.

Warmly I felt her bosom thrill,

I pressed it closer, closer still,

Though gently bid not;

Till — oh! the world hath sel­dom heard

Of lov­ers, who so nearly erred,

And yet, who did not.

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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we’re post­ing a daily love poem & a Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print. Just because we love love.

‘First Day’ by Christina Rossetti

I wish I could remem­ber the first day,

First hour, first moment of your meet­ing me;

If bright or dim the sea­son, it might be

Sum­mer or winter for aught I can say.

So unre­cor­ded did it slip away,

So blind was I to see and to foresee,

So dull to mark the bud­ding of my tree

That would not blos­som yet for many a May.

If only I could recol­lect it! Such

A day of days! I let it come and go

As trace­less as a thaw of bygone snow.

It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!

If only now I could recall that touch,

First touch of hand in hand! — Did one but know!

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‘A Statue Of Eros’ by Zen­odo­tos (325 BC).

Who carved Love

and placed him by

this foun­tain,

think­ing

he could control

such fire

with water?

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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we thought we’d post a love poem & a Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print daily. Just because we love love.

‘Love Is Not’ by Mar­cus Argentarius (20 BC — 30 AD).

Love is not just a func­tion of the eyes.

Beau­ti­ful objects will, of course, inspire

Pos­sess­ive urges — you need not despise

Your taste. But when insa­ti­able desire

Inflames you for a girl who’s out of fashion,

Lack­ing in glam­our — plain, in fact — that fire

Is genu­ine; that’s the authen­tic passion.

Beauty, though, any critic can admire.

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Launched at the Spirit of Christ­mas Fair, ladies & gen­tle­men we are delighted to introduce

Coulson Macleod’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ lime­stone typo­graphic print…

solid lime­stone print. unframed.

Lime­stone size is 40cm x 20cm x 1.2cm

solid lime­stone print. framed with reclaimed wood.

Size when framed is 48cm x 28cm x 4cm.

The frame is hand­made using reclaimed antique Vic­torian roof tim­bers. We pur­pose­fully retain any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each frame is totally unique.

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Our very good friends over at Rock My Wed­ding were asked along to The National Wed­ding Show (in Lon­don Earl’s Court & Birmingham’s NEC). They were given a stand in the blog­gers area along with our other wed­ding blog friends I Am Staggered.

And Rock My Wed­ding asked us if we’d provide some typo­graphic art­work.

We have massive respect for Rock My Wed­ding. Prac­tic­ally every­one get­ting mar­ried reads it. We’re get­ting mar­ried next June. And we read it daily. The founder, Char­lotte, is also a Coulson Macleod cus­tomer. So how could we refuse?

We sent them our ‘Wed­ded Bliss’ & ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ typo­graphic lime­stone prints.

Their pho­tos from their blog are so lovely we’ve put them here for you to see too.

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

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Coulson Macleod bespoke typo­graphic art has been fea­tured in the 100^th issue of Wed­ding Ideas magazine.

Wed­ding Ideas fea­tured our ‘What’ bespoke typo­graphic print call­ing it a great gift idea. And indeed it is.

Our bespoke ‘What’ print fea­tures the words (writ­ten by ourselves) from our lim­ited edi­tion ‘What Is Love?’ print (see below)…

‘What Is Love?’ lim­ited edi­tion print by Coulson Macleod

You can per­son­al­ise your art­work by adding your own names and your wed­ding date at the bot­tom. You can also choose the col­our of the text.

And then, you can choose which frame or base mater­ial you’d like your bespoke art­work prin­ted on, such as.…

Bespoke ‘What’ print on solid ash block (in gift box)

Bespoke ‘What’ print on solid lime­stone with reclaimed wood frame

A very per­sonal wed­ding gift idea don’t you think?

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Now for the eagle-eyed amongst you, or if you’re a super-duper fan of Coulson Macleod, you may recog­nise our latest col­lec­tion called ‘Love Notes’…

Yes, this is not strictly a new col­lec­tion of typo­graphic prints. Just a re-worked one.

Our re-worked ‘Love Notes’ col­lec­tion still fea­tures a hand­made vintage-style frame made with rough-sawn solid oak.

Our re-worked ‘Love Notes’ col­lec­tions still fea­tures a white-washed oak panel prin­ted with dis­tressed typo­graphy.

How­ever the size of each print is now 54cm x 54cm x 8cm. Not the smal­ler 29cm x 29cm x 8cm.

Why? Well if you love someone you want to tell them in a big way!

And we’ve re-jigged the style. This is how they used to look…

Per­fect big love notes. Which one is your favourite?

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